AI in IP 

Dr. Bowman Heiden is the Co-Director of the Center for Intellectual Property (CIP) at University of Gothenburg, which is a joint platform between academia and industry focused on the transformation of knowledge into wealth and welfare. He is also the Executive Director of the Tusher Strategic Initiative for Technology Leadership at UC-Berkeley and co-chair of the Technology, Innovation, and Intellectual Property program at the Classical Liberal Institute at the NYU School of Law. Dr. Heiden was recently a member of the European Commission Expert Group on Standard Essential Patents. 

Dr. Heiden is the co-founder of the Berkeley Deep Tech Innovation Lab, the Dynamic Competition Initiative, ICM Global, and Increasing Diversity in Innovation. Over the past fifteen years, Dr. Heiden has also managed over 150 innovation projects with industry, university research institutes, healthcare providers, and start-up ventures. 

Dr. Heiden holds degrees in engineering, technology management, and economics, and his research is at the interdisciplinary interface of economics, law, and innovation, in particular, intellectual property, innovation economics, and competition policy in knowledge-intensive sectors. Before turning his focus to the fields of innovation strategy and policy, Dr. Heiden played professional basketball in a number of European countries.

Ruud Peters is an IP business leader and entrepreneur with both strategic and operational capabilities, who created and managed one of the world’s leading and most successful IP businesses as Chief Intellectual Property Officer of Philips for a period of 15 years till the end of 2013. In 2014 he established his own IP Consultancy company providing consultancy in IP strategy and organizational matters to enterprises and institutes around the globe. In addition, he is acting as board member/advisory board member/advisor for Iprova Sarl, Lausanne, Switzerland; School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; Institute for Intellectual Property Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; Center for Intellectual Property (CIP), Gothenburg, Sweden; AI Patents, North Carolina, USA and Arbell Energy, Tel Aviv, Israel. In 2017 he was appointed as Guest-Professor at the School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. 

He was inducted into the IP Hall of Fame in 2010 and he received an Outstanding Achievement Award for his lifetime contributions to the IP field from Managing Intellectual Property magazine in 2014. He frequently speaks at major international IP conferences/webinars and also writes regularly articles in leading IP and business magazines. Ruud has a background in physics (Technical University Delft, The Netherlands). 

Sakae Nakamura is an Executive Advisor to LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions and a recognized pioneer in IP landscaping and strategic patent intelligence. She spent nearly four decades at Asahi Kasei Corporation, where she held senior leadership positions in intellectual property and helped establish and lead the company’s IP intelligence activities. Nakamura has played a prominent role in advancing IP landscaping in Japan, including serving as Representative Secretary of the IP Landscape Association. Her work has focused on integrating patent and technology intelligence into business strategy, management decision-making and innovation planning. 

William Mansfield is part of Product Strategy and Discovery for LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions, including PatentSight+ and Protégé. He directs the discovery process that turns customer and expert input into working prototypes and product specifications, working closely with engineering, strategy, and customer-facing teams to bring new capabilities from concept through to release. His work spans data engineering, competitive intelligence, and AI integration. He previously oversaw LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions’ global consulting work and Customer Success teams, and led initiatives on patent data quality. He has an Economics background and has previously worked on developing Market and R&D strategy in the solar industry.